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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Russia Says Sarin Gas in Aug. 21 Syria Attack Was ‘Homemade’

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said
in an interview with a US newspaper published Thursday that homemade
sarin nerve agent was used in a chemical weapons attack in Damascus on
August 21, an attack that the United States maintains was carried out by
the Syrian regime.
Lavrov gave an interview to The Washington Post on Tuesday after a
meeting with his US counterpart John Kerry. Lavrov said he had used the
meeting to hand over evidence proving Russia’s contention that chemical
weapons were used by Syrian rebel groups in the controversial August 21
attack.
Russia investigated the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Syrian
city of Aleppo on March 19 after a request from the Syrian government,
Lavrov said, adding that its findings have been “broadly” made available
to the United Nations Security Council and the public, The Washington
Post reported.
“The main conclusion is that the type of sarin used in that incident
[on March 19] was homemade, and we also have evidence that the type of
sarin used on August 21 was the same, only of higher concentration,”
Lavrov said, according to The Washington Post.
The United States, as well as Britain and France, said last week that
a UN report into the use of chemical weapons on August 21 in Damascus
confirmed their contentions that it was the work of the Syrian regime,
Reuters reported.
The UN investigation – which did not have a mandate to determine
which side was responsible – said that sarin gas was delivered via
surface-to-surface rockets during the attack on August 21, which also
coincide with meteorological conditions that maximized the spread of the
gas, according to Reuters.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on September 18
that the UN investigation was carried out in the absence of a full
understanding of the situation in Syria, and described its conclusions
as “politicized, biased and unilateral.”
Lavrov
told The Washington Post on Tuesday that the evidence he had presented
to Kerry to support Russia’s case that chemical weapons were used by
rebel groups on August 21 was “available on the Internet,” and that it
included reports from journalists who were told by combatants that “they
were given some unusual rockets and ammunition by some foreign country
and they didn’t know how to use them.”
The United States claims that 1,400 people, including over 400
children, were killed in the August 21 attack in the Damascus suburb of
Ghouta, and has used the incident in an attempt to rally international
and domestic support for a military strike on Syria.
The use of force against Syria by members of the international
community has been put on hold in recent weeks after Russia and the US
reached agreement on September 14 on a plan to put all of Syria’s
chemical weapons under international control, and then destroy or remove
them from the war-torn country by the middle of 2014.